01 Heritage Research
First we find your roots.
The exact village, not "near Cosenza" — San Sosti, or Cropalati, or Civita. We rebuild the family tree across at least three generations and find the house, if it still stands.
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The wedding that
brings you home.
We build the heritage wedding: in the village your family left, with the family they left behind, where it all began.
Who comes home
Some choose Calabria for the sea. We work with those who choose it because it's home.
Couples returning to marry in the village their grandparents left — from Boston, Sydney, Buenos Aires, or just from Milan and Zurich. People who want the grandmother in the front row, not just a beautiful backdrop.
We don't plan destination weddings. We build heritage weddings: in the precise places of your roots, with your family's story at the center — not only the story of your love.
Real Weddings
Three villages, three stories.
Blu 70
Claudia & Pierre-Emmanuel
Claudia is from Catanzaro. She moved to Luxembourg for work — and brought Pierre-Emmanuel back home to marry at Blu 70.
Gerace
Luca & Alessandra
Alessandra is from Bianco. Luca is from Turin. They came back together to Gerace, at the Casale della Rocca, with Mimmo Bevacqua's fireworks closing the night.
Blu 70
Yessica & Alberto
Sea, rocks, white flowers. A wedding at Blu 70 on the Calabrian coast, with the vintage car steps away from the water and the night lit through to the end.
The signature
A heritage wedding done well is built in four movements.
02 Rooting Day
Then we go back to the village.
A day in the village, two or three months before the wedding. The mayor, the parish, the house, the relatives found during the research, lunch in their homes. When the wedding day comes, you are no longer a visitor — you have already been welcomed.
03 The rite that mends
Then we build a ceremony that tells it.
A reading in dialect, a song of the village, a dish with its history printed on the menu, mortaretti at the church door. The details only those who live here know.
04 Bilingual mediation
Then we make sure everyone understands.
Bilingual celebrant, menus and welcome guide translated, mediation between the Calabrian family and the guests from abroad.
Without one of these four movements, it isn't a heritage wedding. It's just a wedding in Calabria.
Experiences
Six ways to come home.
Heritage Engagement
The proposal
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Heritage Elopement
The essential return
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Heritage Core
The return
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Heritage Plus
The extended return
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Heritage Signature
Bespoke, in full
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Heritage Vow Renewal
A return after a lifetime
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Letters from the South
One letter a month, from Calabria.
Stories of weddings, villages, returns. I write it as I'd write to a distant cousin.